Northern Mariana Islands v. Atalig’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 682 · 1984
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Beaulieu v. United States (1991), Lawrence M. Fleming v. Department of Public Safety, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (1988)
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 48 U.S.C. § 1424 · 48 U.S.C. § 1561 · 48 U.S.C. § 1681 · 48 U.S.C. § 1694
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Reid v. Covert · Baldwin v. New York · Downes v. Bidwell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(N)either trial by jury nor indictment by grand jury shall be required in any civil action or criminal prosecution based on local law, except where required by local law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be modified only with the consent of the Government of the United States and the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“those fundamental limitations in favor of personal rights”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.